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Director:
Wim Wenders
Writers:
Wim Wenders (writer) and
Norman Ohler (co-writer) ...
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Release Date:
20 November 2008 (Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Because he could not stop for me, I kindly stopped for Death more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Campino ... Finn
Inga Busch ... Karla
Axel Sichrovsky ... Hans
Gerhard Gutberlet ... Gerhard
Harry Blain ... Harry
Sebastian Blomberg ... Julian

Jana Pallaske ... Student
Olivia Asiedu-Poku ... Fan
Melika Foroutan ... Anke
Anna Orso ... Mother
Lou Reed ... Himself
Udo Samel ... Banker
Guiseppe Provinzano ... Actor 1
Guiseppe Massa ... Actor 2
Giovanna Mezzogiorno ... Flavia
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Palermo Story (Italy) (working title)
Rendez-vous à Palerme (France)
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Runtime:
France:124 min | Germany:108 min (edited version)
Country:
Germany | France | Italy
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film marks the first time that Director Wenders shot a movie in his hometown, Düsseldorf. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "TV total: (2009-02-18)" (2009) more
Soundtrack:
My Impropriety more

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9 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Because he could not stop for me, I kindly stopped for Death, 9 December 2008
3/10
Author: richard_sleboe from Germany

This is easily Wim Wender's most pretentious movie to date, and that's saying a lot given that Wenders is perhaps the most pretentious director of his generation. There is so much symbolic Mumbo-Jumbo I don't know where to begin: Dungeons. Coffins. Dead people. Ghosts. Including Lou Reed as a black-and-white specter of himself. Flocks of sheep. A shape-shifting city skyline. Hooded strangers, shooting arrows and causing crashes. All of which I have seen before, and with more panache: In "Dark City", in Cronenberg's "Crash", Paul Auster's "Lulu on the Bridge", Tom Tykwer's "Winter Sleepers", even in TV's "Lost". I'm not even mentioning "The Devil's Advocate". At the height of his self-importance, Wenders has Dennis Hopper, in the part of Death himself, make a speech about the merits of analog photography. Sounds ridiculous? Go figure. But the weakest link is Wender's choice of Campino as photographer Finn Gilbert, the lead character. Campino, a German rock star in his day job, may be photogenic in an aging toy boy way, but an actor he sure is not. Anything he says sounds like a line from a script, and the script is weak enough to begin with. Wenders asks too much him, and too little of his co-lead Giovanna Mezzogiornio, a fine actress restricted to sleepy smiles and sullen glances in this movie. Charming guest appearances by Jana Pallaske as a feisty arts student, Inga Busch as a sexy swimming instructor in Ugg boots and a bathing suit, and by the divine Milla Jovovich as her glamorous self. Nice enough soundtrack, featuring Bonnie Prince Billy, Nick Cave, and The Velvet Underground. Watch with your eyes closed.

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